The Impact Of The Villainess’ Fake Marriage On The Ending - Chapter 62

Chapter 62

“Ugh…”

Kael opened his eyes with a splitting headache. It hurt so much that he couldn’t hold back a groan.

After naturally closing his eyes again due to the pain that came from raising his body, he managed to open them again after a long time.

“… Adeline?”

As his eyes regained focus, they captured Adeline. She was on his bedside, lying on her face with her arms folded. She had fallen asleep as she spent the night next to Kael.

Only then did Kael find Adeline’s hand on his arm. It was a trace of her efforts to reach Kael even as she fell asleep.

After looking at the affectionate scene, the memory of last night, which had been far away in his sleep, surged like a wave and hit Kael.

The dagger that Vanessa was holding was imbued with intense black magic, and the black energy of darkness stimulated the curse cycle.

It was still a long time before the pain would find him, but the strong black magic brought about Kael’s pain early. Feeling this, Kael deliberately entrusted Adeline to Enoch and Leo, and immediately returned to the mansion and locked himself in a hidden space.

It wasn’t as messy as it was when the real cycle came, but as time went on, Kael could feel the curse threatening him.

[Kael? Kael, are you there?]

While he was fighting the pain, swallowing a raging curse, Adeline appeared. The moment he doubted his ears was still vivid.

Kael struggled hard, trying not to let go of his reason. The more he felt the curse getting stronger, the more impatient he became.

If he hurt Adeline because of the curse, he was no longer confident he could live with sanity.

[Adeline, please! I might hurt you. So please!]

The scene where he had desperately begged Adeline came back to life. He had vivid memories of trying to keep himself in shackles because of Adeline, who hadn’t stepped down.

At that moment, the image of Adeline stopping Kael, the lips that had soon touched him, and the pain that had surprisingly subsided the moment her warmth touched him all came to mind.

“…”

Kael looked silently at the sleeping Adeline.

The desperate kiss overlapped with her, like the seeping light.

It was the first time in his life. The first time all his thoughts were erased, and he faced a moment when he wanted only one woman.

The more he fumbled around the soft lips and his breath got hotter, the more he craved beyond that. The desire to completely have Adeline shook Kael.

It wasn’t a feeling of longing for a salvation that calmed the pain. At that moment, Kael definitely hoped for more than salvation.

“Kael? Are you awake?”

While he was confused by the unfamiliar emotions, Adeline woke up.

Adeline, who raised her head with a slightly hazy expression, quickly came to her senses and looked around at Kael with her eyes opened wide.

“How are you feeling? Are you alright now? Does it hurt anywhere?”

Adeline quickly poured out question after question. Her warm affection for Kael could be felt.

She wasn’t afraid of him at all. Even though she saw him struggling with her own eyes, she was worried rather than afraid.

“… Aren’t you afraid? You’re next to someone cursed like this.”

“No. I’m not afraid.”

The answer following the cautious question asked by a sunken voice was firm.

“Does it hurt anywhere right now?”

It wasn’t a lie to say that she wasn’t afraid. He could feel it clearly as she was just looking after Kael’s well-being.

Seeing Adeline like that, Kael’s emotions soared.

‘Why do you keep making me greedy? Just why?’

He believed things could go back to how they were before. He thought he would be able to treat Adeline like when he used to just think she was an interesting and funny woman.

He was confident that he could close his heart, organize his feelings, and protect Adeline from the curse even if he didn’t let her go.

He was mistaken.

For the first time, Kael’s calculations were wrong.

He madly coveted the woman in front of him. He wanted to kiss her like he did yesterday, whisper love wholeheartedly, hug her tightly, and hold her in his arms.

It was not a heart that could be closed, nor a feeling that could be put away.

“Kael?”

Adeline’s expression grew serious as Kael kept quiet with a sad face.

Gazing at the change in her expression, Kael clenched his fists without realizing it.

The more he felt the desire to hug Adeline right now, the more the curse rang in his ears.

Everything he wanted to have, everything he loved, would die in pain.

The evil voice that had fallen over the crying boy instantly became an image of blood and overlapped with Adeline.

When he found out that Adeline had been kidnapped and tortured, it was because of this curse that Kael could not free himself from his toxic guilt.

He was afraid because the curse that knew Kael’s feelings seemed to be clawing at Adeline.

“Kael? Can you hear me?”

Adeline worriedly climbed onto the bed and came close to Kael.

“Are you…”

Kael stopped the small hand that was heading towards his face. Surprised, Adeline looked at Kael in confusion.

“I’m fine. Everything will be fine now, so go back and rest.”

She was the one who freed him for the first time from the pain of the curse. Aside from everything else, he had to hang on to Adeline for this alone.

However, Kael turned his head coldly. He had to protect Adeline from the curse. The sight of the curse harming Adeline could not be allowed at all.

Even if it was a terrible pain that caused him to long for death, it was much better for Kael himself to just leave it alone and endure it.

No matter what happened, he couldn’t let Adeline get hurt.

“Are you going to push me away again?”

Adeline asked Kael, as if she couldn’t understand at all.

Instead of answering, Kael got out of bed. His intention was to move away from Adeline, who was on top of the bed.

But the moment he set foot on the floor, a dizzying pain struck Kael.

‘Damn it.’

It was a pain that he had to originally suffer for a week once it came to him. Even though Adeline had calmed it down, the black wound woke up, itching.

Kael clenched his teeth so that he wouldn’t flinch. The thought of having to send Adeline back somehow only made him more desperate.

“I have something to tell Vero. It’s something I can’t tell you, so please leave the room.”

Adeline continued to be pushed away by the cold voice he was barely able to bring up.

Adeline, who was staring at Kael, came down at the foot of the bed as if to move away as he had said.

But she approached Kael, not the door. After walking sternly, she stood right in front of Kael and faced him.

“Does it hurt right now?”

Kael’s eyes shook slightly at her question, which hit a weak spot. He quickly hid it, but it was useless.

Kael didn’t know. How many things the feeling of love makes you see, how much it makes you notice.

“Even if you have to push me away, now it’s not the time. It seems like you’re suffering from that pain again. I can’t bear to watch that anymore.”

Adeline refused Kael’s will more firmly than ever.

“If you really can’t, just think of it as being treated. Taking medicine because you’re sick.”

“…”

“Just like you buried it that night, you just have to bury it here again.”

Kael couldn’t say anything. Everything Adeline said shook him. Even her firm will, which seemed to have no intention of retreating at all, complicated Kael’s mind.

“… Don’t push me away now.”

It wasn’t until he heard her voice telling him not to push her away that Kael realized, too.

No matter how hard he tried to hide his feelings, he couldn’t fool the person he loved.

Adeline, who was trying to be calm, still showed the same desire for him to be healed despite him hurting her.

She carefully wrapped her hands around Kael’s cheeks before standing on her tiptoes and kissing him.

It was the same as last night. As soon as her lips touched him, Adeline felt like her energy was escaping again, and Kael’s pain subsided.

Kael struggled to suppress the urge to reach out and embrace Adeline. He wanted to share a deeper kiss, not a kiss that tickled like this.

But he had to endure it. Adeline asked if he could bury it as before, but he couldn’t.

Kael’s feelings had grown too big to do so.

“…”

The short kiss drove out the pain, and a gap opened once again between them.

Adeline detached her lips and looked at Kael with slightly moist eyes. She moved her lips slightly as if she was about to say something, but that was all. Adeline lowered her gaze as if it was enough, then walked to the door.

Kael’s hands, clenched so tightly that his knuckles turned white, trembled sharply.

He wanted to call Adeline right away and stop her.

“Your Grace!”

But as he was struggling with the overwhelming urge, there was a loud knock on the door and a voice looking for Adeline.

Adeline, who was heading out, opened the door in surprise. Beyond the door, there stood Vero, with a serious expression on his face.

“Your Gr… My Lord! You have woken up!”

Vero, who didn’t know that Kael had awakened yet, looked at Kael in surprise.

“What’s going on, Vero?”

The two gazes met for a while, and Adeline asked why Vero was in such a hurry.

Vero took a deep breath and told Adeline and Kael the tremendous news.

“It is said that Lady Felix, who was in custody, has passed away.”